[Bug 13771] Encodings 'misinterpreted for compatibility' should risk fatal error in XHTML

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13771

Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-08-13 18:24:49 UTC ---
Internet Explorer 9:

IE9 could be said to behave slightly better than the others: If you contrast
the ISO-8859-1 test page
(<http://malform.no/testing/html5/bom/normal-XML-iso88591>) with an UTF-8
encoded reference page
(<http://malform.no/testing/html5/bom/normal-XML-iso88591utfeight>), then it
turns out that IE9 for the ISO-8859-1 encoded page silently drops the WIN-1252
specific characters.

Of course, IE9 should have emitted a fatal error. But at least its deviation
from both HTML5 and XML 1.0 adds yet another reason to support XML 1.0's
requirement to display a fatal error.

Btw, when it comes to the US-ASCII teste page
(<http://malform.no/testing/html5/bom/normal-XML-ascii-encoding>) then IE9 (in
Adobe's browserlab and in www.netrenderer.de) fails to display it, which I
guess counts as a fatal error.

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Received on Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:24:50 UTC